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The mystery of the Aztec warrior
With a handwritten will to guide them, the Hardy boys try to locate a long lost Aztec treasure while trying to outwit would-be thieves.
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The prince & the coyote
\"Fifteen-year old crown prince Acolmiztli wants nothing more than to see his city-state of Tetzcoco thrive. A singer, poet, and burgeoning philosophical mind, he has big plans about infrastructure projects and cultural initiatives that will bring honor to his family and help his people flourish. But the two sides of his family, the kingdoms of Mexico and Acolhuacan, have been at war his entire life - after his father risked the wrath of the Tepanec emperor to win his mother's love. When a power struggle leaves his father dead and his mother and siblings in exile, Acolmiztli must run for his life, seeking refuge in the wilderness. After a coyote helps him find his way in the wild, he takes on a new name - Nezahualcoyotl, or \"fasting coyote\" (\"Neza\" for short). Biding his time until he can form new alliances and reconnect with his family, Neza goes undercover, and falls in love with a commoner girl, Sekalli. Can Neza survive his plotting uncles' scheme to wipe out his line for good? Will the empire he dreams of in Tetzcoco ever come to life? And is he willing to risk the lives of those he loves in the process? This action-packed tale blends prose and poetry - including translations of surviving poems by Nezahualcoyotl himself, translated from classical Nahuatl by the author. And the book is packed with queer rep - queer love stories, and a thoughtful depiction of pre-Columbian understandings of gender that defy the contemporary Western gender binary.\"-- Provided by publisher.
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APOCALYPTIC VISIONS IN CONTEMPORARY MEXICAN SCIENCE FICTION
Cirlot also notes that trees are often seen as a 'Vorld-axis\" joining the three worlds into one: \"the underworld, hell; the middle world: earth; the upper world: heaven\" (347). [...]when trees are ravaged by pollution and chopped down to provide space for modem cities, humans lose touch with the natural environment from whence they evolved, and as a consequence, human society becomes unbalanced and unsustainable. The narrator notes that the 1985 earthquake was only the beginning of many more worse ones that followed. Since this story was written a year after that natural disaster, the memory of that event must have still been fresh for the author. [...]the narrator and his wife wonder if they should not euthanize their infant son and commit suicide to save themselves from certain death in Martian hands. [...]in this brief overview of contemporary Mexican sf I have shown how the theme of apocalypse in its multiple variations is a prominent leitmotiv.
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Traces of Red: Historiographic Metafiction and Chicano Identity in Guy Garcia's \Obsidian Sky\
[...]of an interest in studying historical sources as means of inscribing selfOther relationships, Chicano/a authors problematize the production and dissemination of information regarding the past, with particular attention to the act of writing. [...]recent works such as Alejandro Morales's The Rag Doll Plagues (1992), Guy Garcías Obsidian Sky (1994), Joseph Sanchez's The Aztec Chronicles (1995), Graciela Limón's Song of the Hummingbird (1996), Rudolfo Anaya's Shaman Winter (1998), Yxta Maya Murray's The Conquest (2002), and Bonnie Hayman's The Cult of the Jaguar (2004) creatively engage the past to reexamine the period of conquest and colonization of the Americas and its implications for the present and future of Chicano/a identity politics. According to the legend, sacrifices to this deity were composed of \"hummingbirds, quail, butterflies, snakes, and large grasshoppers\" (Sanday-Reeves 189), rather than human beings.19 As a result, Garcías fictional codex describes Quetzalcoatl as represented as \"a serpent pierced by an arrow and bones, indicating self-sacrifice; maguey cactus spines for bloodletting; a serpent pierced by its own tail, the sign of the beginning and the end in perfect conjunction\" (362). [...]the Chicano anthropologist begins to question the violent image of his ancestors as represented by Western culture, affirming that Aztec human sacrifice is not unique in the history of humankind nor is it exclusively a sign of past times: \"Mesoamerican societies hardly cornered the market on mass murder.
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Clouds in My Coffee
An excerpt from the novel Clouds in My Coffee by Evelina Zuni Lucero is presented.
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The Secret History of Aztlán
In their 2002 filmThe Great Mojado Invasion, Part 2(The Second U.S.– Mexico War), Guillermo Gómez-Peña and Gustavo Vázquez construct a speculative fiction about the history of US–Mexico relations. Narrated as a history told from the future, this self-proclaimed “uncensored version of the director’s cut of the Chicana/o sci-ficlassic banned in sixty-nine festivals” uses clips from low-budget cinema on both sides of the border to trace a satirical narrative that begins with the Conquest and continues through the Mexican Revolution, the Chicana/o movement, the so-called Reconquista (the proposed reconquering of the Southwest by Mexico), and the subsequent formation
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Looking for Roots: \Curandera\ and Shamanic Practices in Southwestern Fiction
Arguing that the relationship between native American and Mexican American cultures has often been ignored, this essay explores connections between cultures by focussing on traditional healing practices. These practices, evident in the fiction of Leslie Marmon Silko, Rudolpho Anaya, and Ana Castillo, reveal origins in Aztec and Mayan medicine.
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CHICANA/O-YAQUI BORDERLANDS AND INDIGENEITY IN ALFREDO VÉA JR.ʹS LA MARAVILLA
ALFREDO VÉA Jr.’s novelLa Maravilla(1993) is in great part a negotiation of Mexican and Chicana/o portrayals of the Yaqui nation of Sonora, Mexico.¹ Discourses based on racial and cultural perspectives discernible incientíficopositivism and state Indigenismo have resulted in the mythification of Yaquis as an innately bellicose and culturally backward people: fierce warriors and exotic dancers. These discourses appear in literary representations of Yoeme people and culture in the writings of foundational Chicana/o authors, including Rodolfo “Corky” Gonzales, Alurista, and Cherríe L. Moraga, who often surround their interpretations oflo yaquiwith the symbolism of the mythological
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